Some of the country's top property developers are hoping to benefit from rezonings as Dun Laoghaire Rathdown council draws up a new development plan.
Every five years, developers and landowners seek to cash in from lucrative rezonings when new county development plans are passed. Now Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, the most affluent county in Ireland, has begun work on its new development plan and some of the country's biggest developers have moved to benefit from rezonings which can increase the value of land by up to 800% overnight.
The Roche family, which formerly owned Roches Stores, has outlined plans to "redevelop, modify and enhance" the Frascati centre in Blackrock in a linked development with the owners of Superquinn, who will redevelop the Blackrock shopping centre across the road. The two centres will have "a combined strategy incorporating improved retailing" and residential, employment and public works.
Treasury Holdings, the development company owned by Johnny Ronan and Richard Barrett, has made several submissions for rezoning. In relation to the Stillorgan shopping centre, which it owns, it says the 25,000 square metres of retail space proposed under the existing plan is "overly restrictive" and wants it increased to 40,000 square metres. Treasury has been trying to redevelop the shopping centre for nearly a decade and finally received permission to replace it in 2006.
The company also owns 41 acres at Glendruid and Lehaunstown near Cherrywood. These are greenfield sites but Treasury wants some of the lands rezoned for residential use and says they should be "recognised as suitable locations for high density development".
Its Edencastle subsidiary, which owns two acres at South County Business Park, says that it has "failed to find an operator" for its planned aparthotel and now plans to develop offices on the site.
Treasury is also a shareholder in Derek Quinlan's Clyde Road Partnership which is developing the nearby Central Park office scheme. Its submission seeks higher-density development by means of taller buildings.
Bernard McNamara has revived plans for social, affordable and private housing on a site at Kilmashogue near Rathfarnham. He owns more than 100 acres there and is willing to provide 400 units for social and affordable use, half of which would come in the form of free sites. That equates to just under 40% of the housing proposed for the site.
McNamara and leisure entrepreneurs Colum and Ciarán Butler have asked for Dudley's Field in Dundrum, formerly part of the Airfield estate, to be rezoned as a neighbourhood centre which would allow the development of a mixed-use scheme to include residential, commercial recreational, retail and childcare uses. The site is currently zoned open space.
Also in Dundrum, Castlethorn Construction subsidiaries Crossridge and Lenridge have lobbied for council support for a "greater quantum of development and longer planning permissions". The planned investment in the completed scheme will be more than €1bn and will have created 5,000 jobs, the submissions states.
It says it plans to develop the Dom Marmion site, which it owns, to include a library and county council offices. It also says that Usher House, which it owns, and adjoining buildings have the potential for a landmark building.
Liam Carroll's Dunloe Ewart has stressed its opposition to the potential designation of his land at Cherrywood as a strategic development zone, saying it "would be ill-advised and inappropriate" and would further delay development there. Carroll also wants the reference to a 35,000 square-metre limit on Cherrywood's retail space removed as it will need a "critical mass of retail to succeed as a town centre" and proposes instead doubling that figure "as a minimum".
John Lally's Lalco, meanwhile, has made a submission of the future of the Irish Life site at Sandyford, which is the subject of a legal dispute, and the neighbouring FAAC site. It mainly supports the council's plan but draws attention to an infrastructural deficit. Cork developer John Fleming, meanwhile, wants more retail development allowed in the area.
Paddy Shovlin's Landmark Developments has lobbied for the removal of the Eastern bypass as an objective from the county development plan and is asking for the development of a women and children's hospital on the Fannin's site in the business estate. In the same area, Eircom says its site there would support a mixed-use development and its submission includes plans for a tower as part of a larger future development envisioned for the site.
Semi-state ESB says its 14-acre site in the area would be suitable for mixed-use development including offices and residential uses. In Carrickmines, the ESB's site at Ballyogan Road is a "significant redevelopment opportunity" which includes plans for new corporate offices for part of the organisation. The ESB plans to relocate more than 100 employees to new offices there but the exact amount has been blanked out in the submission. It will also centralise some other activities on the site.
"The funding required to consolidate operational works... and provision of ESB Networks' proposed headquarters and related activities, all to be located on the Ballyogan Road site, will be supported in part by the redevelopment of the Sandyford site," it states.
Hotelier and former publican Hugh O'Regan has made a submission for the 329 acres he owns at the former Kilternan Sports Hotel, which he is redeveloping to include additional bedrooms, a spa, recreational facilities, an aparthotel, restaurant, bar and biomass centre. He wants a master plan brought in to guide future development of the land he owns there.
The owners of the Droimsi lands at Kilternan, meanwhile, want their site of nearly 24 acres rezoned, mainly for medium-density residential development. Droimsi Developments' annual return shows it is owned by several parties including Tom Phillips & Associates and property industry veteran Kevin Kelly.
Michael Cotter's Park Developments is seeking to have some of the lands at The Park scheme in Carrickmines rezoned from enterprise and employment to a mixed-use development including residential, retail and office uses.
Cotter and the Jackson family, meanwhile, have had a master plan drawn up for the development of their 136 acres of land at Glenamuck and Kilternan near Carrickmines golf club which are currently in agricultural use. Most of the land would be given over to residential use if the rezoning is allowed.
In nearby Stepaside village, Park is hoping to have a site zoned for mixed-use development with shops and houses. It has already had talks with the council regarding the plans.
David Arnold, the developer behind private wealth management company D2 Private, has unveiled his plans for the future of Fernhill Estate at Enniskerry Road in Stepaside. The site of nearly 70 acres is entirely owned by Arnold and he plans to enhance and improve the house, gardens and meadow there with a view to its use as a public park. He will then seek to develop housing on the remaining 33 acres known as the Backlands.
Farther out, Cosgrave Developments has lobbied the council to allow the development of its Old Conna land bank in a way "which will maximise the use of the proposed Luas Green Line (B2)".
The council will now examine the validity of the proposed rezonings as it draws up its new development plan.
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
Showing posts with label development plan submissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development plan submissions. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Dunne seeks to rezone site
DEVELOPERS Sean Dunne and Sean Mulryan are to seek the rezoning of the former Irish Glass Bottle Company's employee sports and social club in Clonskeagh in Dublin 14.
The developers' Zapi Properties vehicle bought the site in 2003 after the company that operated it ceased trading the previous year.
The members had then put the site on the market with an asking price of more than €20m. The site is currently zoned for open space and recreational amenities but the developers have told Dun Laoghaire Rathdown that they want the land zoned "to protect and/or improve residential amenity". The developers believe that "zoning of additional lands for residential development will aid supply, and also aid affordability by increasing competitiveness by developers and suppliers".
The developers also add that "in the current housing climate, developers may find it more advantageous to build houses than to build apartments, especially on sites at some remove from Dublin city centre".
Meanwhile, Dunne's plans for a €1bn development on the site of the former Jurys Doyle and Berkeley Court hotels will be the subject of an oral hearing by An Bord Pleanala this week.
The hearings start on Tuesday into Dunne's plan to develop apartments, a hotel, an embassy building and a shopping centre on the site and will take place at Croke Park.
Dunne meanwhile has withdrawn his application to develop a new office block on the site of Hume House in Ballsbridge in Dublin 4.
The council was notified of the decision last Monday. A note on the council's website said the proposed development would be "overbearing", "visually obtrusive" and "detract from the visual amenities of the area".
It would "seriously injure the amenities of the area and of property in the vicinity and would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area".
€20m
Clonskeagh site's original asking price
€1bn
Total cost of Dunne's Ballsbridge development on the site of Jurys Doyle and Berkeley Court hotels
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
The developers' Zapi Properties vehicle bought the site in 2003 after the company that operated it ceased trading the previous year.
The members had then put the site on the market with an asking price of more than €20m. The site is currently zoned for open space and recreational amenities but the developers have told Dun Laoghaire Rathdown that they want the land zoned "to protect and/or improve residential amenity". The developers believe that "zoning of additional lands for residential development will aid supply, and also aid affordability by increasing competitiveness by developers and suppliers".
The developers also add that "in the current housing climate, developers may find it more advantageous to build houses than to build apartments, especially on sites at some remove from Dublin city centre".
Meanwhile, Dunne's plans for a €1bn development on the site of the former Jurys Doyle and Berkeley Court hotels will be the subject of an oral hearing by An Bord Pleanala this week.
The hearings start on Tuesday into Dunne's plan to develop apartments, a hotel, an embassy building and a shopping centre on the site and will take place at Croke Park.
Dunne meanwhile has withdrawn his application to develop a new office block on the site of Hume House in Ballsbridge in Dublin 4.
The council was notified of the decision last Monday. A note on the council's website said the proposed development would be "overbearing", "visually obtrusive" and "detract from the visual amenities of the area".
It would "seriously injure the amenities of the area and of property in the vicinity and would be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area".
€20m
Clonskeagh site's original asking price
€1bn
Total cost of Dunne's Ballsbridge development on the site of Jurys Doyle and Berkeley Court hotels
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
Gubay seeks Sandyford land rezoning
RETAIL and leisure magnate Albert Gubay is seeking to have part of his Total Fitness site in Sandyford in south Dublin rezoned for residential development. Ranked by Forbes as the 840th-richest person in the world, the self-made businessman is best known in Ireland for setting up retail ventures including the 3 Guys supermarket chain, which was eventually bought by Tesco.
Gubay, whose mother was Irish, is seeking the rezoning for residential development of the southern part of the 27.4-acre site he owns at Blackglen Road. A submission on behalf of his company, Mardown, based in the Isle of Man, says the zoning is justified because of the changing character of the area, the land's capacity to accommodate development and the fact that there is already residential development on the lands. The site is currently zoned for open space and recreational amenities.
Born in Wales and now based in the Isle of Man, Gubay set up Total Fitness in 1995 when he was recovering from a bad back and sold the leisure chain, minus the valuable properties they sit on, for more than €150m in 2004. Last week he lost a High Court case involving former rally driver Rosemary Smith who claimed breach of a legal settlement which would have allowed her live rent-free in a studio apartment in the Total Fitness centre in Sandyford.
Gubay set up the Kwik Save chain of supermarkets in Britain and was also involved in retail in New Zealand and the US.
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
Gubay, whose mother was Irish, is seeking the rezoning for residential development of the southern part of the 27.4-acre site he owns at Blackglen Road. A submission on behalf of his company, Mardown, based in the Isle of Man, says the zoning is justified because of the changing character of the area, the land's capacity to accommodate development and the fact that there is already residential development on the lands. The site is currently zoned for open space and recreational amenities.
Born in Wales and now based in the Isle of Man, Gubay set up Total Fitness in 1995 when he was recovering from a bad back and sold the leisure chain, minus the valuable properties they sit on, for more than €150m in 2004. Last week he lost a High Court case involving former rally driver Rosemary Smith who claimed breach of a legal settlement which would have allowed her live rent-free in a studio apartment in the Total Fitness centre in Sandyford.
Gubay set up the Kwik Save chain of supermarkets in Britain and was also involved in retail in New Zealand and the US.
Sunday Tribune
www.buckplanning.ie
Sunday, 18 February 2007
Public consultation on new County Development Plan
Public consultation on new County Development Plan
Get involvied in the review of the Cork County Development Plan 2003. Have your say in the new plan now being prepared.
Public consultation on the next Cork County Development has commenced and planning officials will be present at venues throughout the county this week and next.
Meet the planners from County Hall from 4.00pm to 9.00pm on
Monday January 29th: Castle Hotel, Macroom
Tuesday January 30th: Community Centre, Fermoy
Wednesday January 31st: Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal
Thursday February 1st: Quality Hotel, Clonakilty
Tuesday February 6th: Community Centre, Kanturk
Wednesday February 7th: County Hall
Thursday February 8th: Bantry Bay Hotel, Bantry.
The Cork County Development Plan sets out the overall strategy for the proper planning and sustainable development of the County. The existing County Development Plan was adopted in January 2003 and remains in force until January 2009.
Cork County Council has commenced the preparatory process for the review of the County Development Plan with the publication of the issues paper and the commencement of a period of public consultation on the issues paper.
The Issues paper can also be viewed on line at the Cork County Council Web-site.
The review of the Plan must be completed within two years.
Submissions on the Issues paper should be made in writing and sent to:
The Senior Planner
Cork County Council
Planning Policy Unit
Floor 13
County Hall
Cork.
Submissions can also be made on-line.
Closing date for receipt of submissions is 09 March 2007.
Get involvied in the review of the Cork County Development Plan 2003. Have your say in the new plan now being prepared.
Public consultation on the next Cork County Development has commenced and planning officials will be present at venues throughout the county this week and next.
Meet the planners from County Hall from 4.00pm to 9.00pm on
Monday January 29th: Castle Hotel, Macroom
Tuesday January 30th: Community Centre, Fermoy
Wednesday January 31st: Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal
Thursday February 1st: Quality Hotel, Clonakilty
Tuesday February 6th: Community Centre, Kanturk
Wednesday February 7th: County Hall
Thursday February 8th: Bantry Bay Hotel, Bantry.
The Cork County Development Plan sets out the overall strategy for the proper planning and sustainable development of the County. The existing County Development Plan was adopted in January 2003 and remains in force until January 2009.
Cork County Council has commenced the preparatory process for the review of the County Development Plan with the publication of the issues paper and the commencement of a period of public consultation on the issues paper.
The Issues paper can also be viewed on line at the Cork County Council Web-site.
The review of the Plan must be completed within two years.
Submissions on the Issues paper should be made in writing and sent to:
The Senior Planner
Cork County Council
Planning Policy Unit
Floor 13
County Hall
Cork.
Submissions can also be made on-line.
Closing date for receipt of submissions is 09 March 2007.
DRAFT BELTURBET LOCAL AREA PLAN
Cavan County Council intends to prepare a Local Area Plan for the town of Belturbet. Section 20 of the Planning & Development Acts 2000 - 2004 requires the Planning Authority to consult with the public before preparing a draft Local Area Plan. Among the key issues to be addressed by the Draft Local Area Plan for Belturbet are:
* Regional Planning Guidelines for the Border Region
* Zoning
* Enterpriseand Employment
* Transportation
* Built and Natural Heritage
* Residential Development
* Recreation, Leisure and Tourism
* Infrastructure
* Urban Design
* Local Facilities
From 8th of February 2007 until 8th of March 2007, a map outlining the lands included in the Draft Local Area Plan Study Boundary is available at the following locations during normal opening hours :-
* Planning Department, Farnham Centre, Farnham Street, Cavan Town
* Belturbet Area Office, Creeny, Belturbet
* Belturbet Public Library, Town Hall, Belturbet
* and www.cavancoco.ie 24 hours a day.
Cavan County Council hereby invites any member of the public or interested parties to make submissions or observations, in writing, with regard to the preparation of this Draft Local Area Plan to
Forward Planning Section, Planning Department, Cavan County Council, Farnham Centre, Farnham Street, Cavan Town before 5.00 p.m. on 8th of March 2007.
Any submissions or observations so made will be taken into consideration by the Council prior to the preparation of the Draft Local Area Plan.
* Regional Planning Guidelines for the Border Region
* Zoning
* Enterpriseand Employment
* Transportation
* Built and Natural Heritage
* Residential Development
* Recreation, Leisure and Tourism
* Infrastructure
* Urban Design
* Local Facilities
From 8th of February 2007 until 8th of March 2007, a map outlining the lands included in the Draft Local Area Plan Study Boundary is available at the following locations during normal opening hours :-
* Planning Department, Farnham Centre, Farnham Street, Cavan Town
* Belturbet Area Office, Creeny, Belturbet
* Belturbet Public Library, Town Hall, Belturbet
* and www.cavancoco.ie 24 hours a day.
Cavan County Council hereby invites any member of the public or interested parties to make submissions or observations, in writing, with regard to the preparation of this Draft Local Area Plan to
Forward Planning Section, Planning Department, Cavan County Council, Farnham Centre, Farnham Street, Cavan Town before 5.00 p.m. on 8th of March 2007.
Any submissions or observations so made will be taken into consideration by the Council prior to the preparation of the Draft Local Area Plan.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)